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The second track on a collection of variety sketches by Viennese cabaret artist, writer, actor, director Karl Farkas (1893-1971) focuses on the fate of great works of art, such as Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The...
Neil Aldrich recites Shakespeare’s sonnets, and other works, speculating about the recitative convention employed in the 17th century. The delivery is rap-like, very different from the performance norm....
NBC radio variety show hosted by Bing Crosby. In this edition John Barrymore gives a dramatic reading of a speech from Hamlet (probably the ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy). Other guests were Don Wilson,...
George Walton Williams analyses the themes of loving and hating in the play illustrated from various productions of the plays.
BBC television comedy sletch show. This episode Includes a c3 minute sketch in which Harry Secombe plays the gravedigger to Julian Orchard’s Hamlet. While Hamlet makes his speech he is interrupted by...
Extract from the arts anthology series. Dr Frank Baxter discusses the design of the Globe Theatre, why Shakespearean clowns are not funny, and how the Elizabethans perceived their world. Hosted by Alistair...
Syndicated weekly concert radio series. Includes a excerpt with Paul Robeson singing in the final scene of Otello. Includes extracts taken from the live concert Robeson gave at the Carnegie Hall on May 9...
Feature film. An awkward Scottish schoolboy eventually finds love. Comedy set in a Scottish new town. Includes a scene in a classroom where Andy (Buchanan) reads aloud from Puck’s speech ending `...and...
A one-off quiz, comprising five rounds, in which four Shakespeare fans answer questions on Shakespeare competing for the title King or Queen of Shakespeariana. Questions include ‘how many Antonios are...
A revue. Readings from Shakespeare and songs set to music. Performed cabaret-style in the pub’Will’s Place’. The music embraces jazz, baroque, samba and gospel-rock. First staged by the Shubert...
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